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dosed

dosed is the simple past and past participle of dose.

Meaning of dose

Verb

dose (third-person singular simple present doses, present participle dosing, simple past and past participle dosed)

  1. (transitive) To administer a dose (of medicine) to.
    • "She thought herself broad awake, and I have dosed her with an opiate."1871, George Meredith, The Adventures of Harry Richmond, page 270
  2. To prescribe a dose.
  3. (transitive) To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
    • The defense never conceded that their clients had administered chloral [hydrate], but Death and Campbell said initially—during their contested station house confessions—that McAlister had dosed [Jennie Bosschieter's] drink.2016, Pamela Donovan, Drink Spiking and Predatory Drugging: A Modern History, page 71
  4. (dated, transitive) To transmit a venereal disease to.
    • Sometime back, one of your scarlet sisters dosed me proper.1977, The White Buffalo, Wild Bill Hickok

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Verb capitalized: DoSed

DoSed

  1. (participle, past) simple past and past participle of DoS

Words formed from dosed

Questions about dosed

What is dosed the simple past and past participle of?
Dosed is the simple past and past participle of dose.
What part of speech is dosed?
Dosed is a verb.

Words near dosed in the dictionary

  1. dose
  2. dose dumping
  3. dose equivalent
  4. dose of one's own medicine
  5. doseable
  6. dosed
  7. Doseh
  8. dosel
  9. dosels
  10. dosemeter
  11. dosemeters

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